Not every documentary needs to justify its impact. But some films enter history at precisely the moment when courts, governments, and societies, despite the work of truth and reconciliation commissions, have failed or refused to reckon with the past. In many places, documentary has reached into the silences left by legal processes: into families, generational inheritance, the gap between what a country officially remembers and what its survivors know to be true, and the descendants of perpetrators would rather forget. This conversation brings together filmmakers whose work has become part of the transitional justice movements their films document, and even inspired global activist movements advocating for accountability. How much can cinema really help break pacts of silence, support legal campaigns, and work toward peace and reconciliation that persist long after a film's release?
Moderator: Leonard Cortana
Panelists: Lisette Orozco (Adriana's Pact, Colectivo de Historias Desobedientes), Almudena Carracedo (The Silence of Others), and Kumjana Novakova (Silence of Reason)
Not every documentary needs to justify its impact. But some films enter history at precisely the moment when courts, governments, and societies, despite the work of truth and reconciliation commissions, have failed or refused to reckon with the past. In many places, documentary has reached into the silences left by legal processes: into families, generational inheritance, the gap between what a country officially remembers and what its survivors know to be true, and the descendants of perpetrators would rather forget. This conversation brings together filmmakers whose work has become part of the transitional justice movements their films document, and even inspired global activist movements advocating for accountability. How much can cinema really help break pacts of silence, support legal campaigns, and work toward peace and reconciliation that persist long after a film's release?
Moderator: Leonard Cortana
Panelists: Lisette Orozco (Adriana's Pact, Colectivo de Historias Desobedientes), Almudena Carracedo (The Silence of Others), and Kumjana Novakova (Silence of Reason)
